. American lands and letters. thy freedom, and ofhuman brotherhood ; I wish as much could besaid of all accredited preachers. Contemporary with these men I have named,were those brothers Reed of Pennsylvania—grand-sons of General Joseph Reed * of Revolutionary an-nals—one of whom was honorably known in diplo-matic position ; the other by his loving and criticalcharge of the earliest American edition of Words-worth ; both held professorships in the Universityof Pennsylvania, and both kept bravely alive thebest traditions of Philadelphia culture. * President of second provincial congress, Adjuta
. American lands and letters. thy freedom, and ofhuman brotherhood ; I wish as much could besaid of all accredited preachers. Contemporary with these men I have named,were those brothers Reed of Pennsylvania—grand-sons of General Joseph Reed * of Revolutionary an-nals—one of whom was honorably known in diplo-matic position ; the other by his loving and criticalcharge of the earliest American edition of Words-worth ; both held professorships in the Universityof Pennsylvania, and both kept bravely alive thebest traditions of Philadelphia culture. * President of second provincial congress, Adjutant Gen-eral under Washington, and subject of certain ill-foundedallegations (in earlier editions of Bancrofts History), whichwere successfully antagonized by William B. Reed, whowas Minister to China (1857) and negotiated the treaty of1858. A JOURNALIST. 359 Horace Greeley. If Professor Henry Reed (unfortunately lost inthe Arctic catastrophe of 1854) be a good typeof the culture which comes of collegiate discipline -?^.. House at Amherst, N. H., in which Greeley was Born. and happy social adjuncts, Horace Greeley * maybe counted an excellent one of that hardy andresolute training which belongs to what we call a self-made man. That flax-haired, smooth-faced * Horace Greeley, b. 1811; d. 1872. American Conflict^1864-66; Recollections of a Busy Life, 1868. 360 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. boy, who founded the bright little JVew Yorkerill ISStt, and decoyed bright workers into his trail,and who ultimately founded the Kew YorkTribune with a great galaxy of literary retainers— that boy, I say, who was sprung from Scotch-Irish forbears, and who knew all the good huckle-berry patches and the haunts of partridges aroundthe high-lands of his New Hampshire home, hada grieyously hard time in his youth. Even dis-trict-scliool chances were narrow; home-fundswere narrower. He chopped, he burned coal, herode horse to plough ; he battled with all storms,and carried that brave, smooth front
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